• Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Sweden - About 1988 and older

  • Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

A day in the life of: www.hva-factory.com

carry Ferodo brake shoes. EBC is having anyone/everyone make them for them. very hit and miss on compound quality

81-83 tanks "in the raw" (unpainted)

headlights from something else possibly that fit the original shells there has got to be some automotive application for a better price. save the originals for show bikes

water cooler repair insert (tough one there)

good old Acerbis Elba headlight in white. tough to find now

the old husky products damper rods for the pre evo 40mm forks.

love what you guys are doing! doing what you love for a job is awesome.
 
1) Bottom end bearing and/or seal sets. Or even an 'engine rebuild kit' (bearings, seals, gaskets all in one shot).
2) I'm with Joe on the headlight thing. I've got a DC Plastics headlight/number plate, and a sealed beam 5 3/4" headlight fits it well, but have had difficulty finding a retaining ring that fits the sealed beam light and the plastic headlight/number plate (most are for cars and have 4-5 bolt positions instead of the 3 in the plastic front piece). If you could sell all 3 (plastic, light, ring), or even the sealed beam light with ring that fits the plastic (of the DC plastic things I do have, the headlight/number plate is one of the more 'true to original' pieces), that would be a fraction of the price of the original stuff, and save the originals for the museum crowd.
 
The Elba headlight in white is easy to find new in the UK.

I just got 2 of these, NOS for 150 shipped for both
Speedo cable and brake hose all included

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We are moving away from EBC to some new shoes that have the metal particles in them - like the Genuine Husky ones did...
Getting batches of 4t pistons made in the unavailable sizes soon...
Regarding the Autoroche headlamps, they made us a batch of 50 with the 3 lugs last time. I will ask if they will do us some sealed beam ones and also a Bosch alternative for the later bikes...
Building a pair of very trick 450cc 1984 Liquid cooled 2t's for the VMXDN at Farleigh in September.
Going over to the K2 single shock fork is better and use a progressive spring. This is a better fork upgrade...
Sorry - we wont do the Auto stuff - that is too small a market!
Will think up some other new stuff!!!

Thanks for all the input,

Andy.
 
Zoke Magnums Andy? Nice
any thought to using 96-98 RM conventional forks......amazing forks. 49mm though may look too modern 97-98 have less underhang than the 96 ones
 
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